For many home growers, gardeners, and farmers, spring is a busy time in the gardening year. In the period running up to and immediately after the last frost date in your area, you might be sowing a ...

Planting seeds in your garden in the spring, also called direct sowing or direct seeding, is a great way to get the season started. Unlike starting seeds indoors, you don’t need to worry about the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Budding gardeners who can’t face the elements of winter could be considering starting off with some seeds indoors. You don’t need ...

Perhaps the hardest thing about sowing tiny seeds in the soil is the thinning process after germination. If carrots, lettuce greens, broccoli and the like are not spaced out enough, the harvest will ...

Fork over the soil two or three weeks before sowing to encourage the weed seeds in the soil to germinate. They can then be hoed off before sowing crops. Remove the first flush of weeds. This will mean ...